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This book provides a comprehensive coverage of important legal and tax issues of relevance to hospitals and physicians, including discussions of potential liability for negligence in providing healthcare services; consents for treatment; laws applicable to various specialized healthcare subjects, such as patient rights, blood transfusions, emergency treatment, patients' rights to refuse treatment; and hospital and physician involvement in specialized services that include abortion procedures, sterilization, artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, and surrogate parenting. The book also covers hospital governance issues, including a summary of the fiduciary duties of members of hospital governing boards, tax laws relating to obtaining and maintaining tax-exempt status for nonprofit hospitals, the reorganizations of hospitals and affiliated entities, and employment laws. The book is an invaluable reference work for hospitals, physicians, and attorneys who represent hospitals and physicians.
About the author
MARILYN E. PHELAN, the Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor of Law Emerita at Texas Tech University, is a life member of the two leading legal institutions-American Law Institute and Uniform Law Commission. In addition to authoring or co-authoring seventeen books and over fifty articles on legal issues related to federal tax law and nonprofits, she has co-authored this book and one other based on her Christian faith and extensive Bible studies.
